Woven-wire fencing.



Patented Apr. 8, I902. J. M. DENN|NG.,

WOVEN WIRE FENCING. (Application filed Sept. 20, 1901.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 697,074, dated April 8, 1902.

Application filed September 2O 1901. Serial No, 75,875. (No modeL) ToaZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH M. DENNING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cedar Rapids, in the county of Linn and State of Iowa, haveinvented a new and useful VVoven- IVire Fencing, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improved woven-wire fencing; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

My improved woven-wire fence fabric is of that class composed of running; wires and short lengths of stay-wires which connect the running-wires together; and the objects of my present improvements are to connect the meeting ends of the stay-wires together before connecting them to the running-wires, so that the stay-wires are connected together independently of their connection with the running-wires, and to so connect the ends of the stay-wires to the running-wires that said staywires are prevented from slipping longitudinally on the running-wires.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an elevation of a portion of a Woven-wire fence fabric constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same, showing the primary step in the process of connecting the stay-wires together and to the running-wires. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the ends of the staywires coiled together before being coiled around the running-wires. Fig. 4: is a similar view showing the ends of the stay-wires coiled around the running-Wires after having been coiled together. Fig. 5 is a detail view of a portion of one of the running-wires, showing one of the crimps or offsets therein.

In the manufacture of my improved wovenwire fence fabric the ends 1 of the stay-wires a are crossed, as at 2, on one side of each of the running-wires b, and the said crossed meeting ends of the said stay-wires are then twisted or coiledtogether, as at 3. The said twisted ends of the stay-wires are then coiled around the running-wires, as at I. By crossing the ends of the stay-wires, as at 2, and then twisting or coiling them together, as at 3, prior to coiling them around the runningwires the said stay-wires are firmly connected together independently of the runningwires, so that they will not become detached should one or more of the running-wires be come broken, and hence the fabric is very much stronger and more durable than that class of such fabric in which the interconnection of the stay-wires is dependent upon and formed by their connections with the runningwires. In the act of coiling the previouslyintercoiled meeting ends of the stay-wires around the running-wires crimps or ofisets 5 are formed in the said running-wires at the points where the said intercoiled meeting ends of the stay-wires are coiled around said running-Wires, and hence the said stay-wires are connected to the said running-wires in such manner that the crimps or offsets of the running-wires prevent the connected ends of the stay-wires from slipping longitudinally on the said running-wires.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. A woven-wire fence fabric comprising runn in g-wires and stay-wires connecting them together, the said stay-wires having their 'meeting ends coiled together, and said coiled meeting ends of said stay-wires being coiled around said running-wires, substantially as described.

2. A woven-wire fence fabric comprising running-wires and stay-wires connecting them together, the said stay-wires having their meeting ends first coiled together and finally coiled around the running-wires, substantially as described.

3. A woven-wire fence fabric comprising running-wires and stay-wires connecting them together, the said stay-wires having their meeting ends crossed and twisted together and then coiled around the running-wires, substantially as described.

4c. A woven-Wire fence fabric comprising running-wires having offsets therein,and staywires having their meeting ends coiled together and coiled around the said offset portions of said running-wires, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH M. DENNING.

Witnesses:

LEWIS A. LEWISON, FRED C. HARDING. 

